Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown's Schooldays: the tradition of "six of the best" for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still essential equipment for every self-respecting headmaster, public indignation against corporal punishment is on the rise, and the Labor government would like to abolish it for good...
...Consolidation of existing faculties. The report noted that eight of the church seminaries have fewer than 100 students each - a wasteful duplication of effort that is partially responsible for the almost eightfold rise in the cost of seminary operations since...
Faced with sagging profits and mounting costs (Chrysler last week announced that prices for its 1968 cars will rise by an average $125, whatever the outcome of the labor-management battle), the industry did in some ways seem generous. By their own reckoning, the Big Three offered a package that would amount to a 5.2% annual increase in labor costs. Wages would go up by 13? an hour during the first year, by an average of 12? an hour during each of the next two years. For the typical G.M. worker, who earned $7,885 in 1966, this would boost...
Whether stability can be maintained in the face of China's rise in Asia and the consequent American commitment there, Halle does not venture...
...than 200,000 residents. Only one out of 100 lawyers is a Negro. Only one in 40 is a woman. But one in five is a Jew. Though more lawyers are over 70 than under 30, things are changing: the U.S. now has 70,000 law students-a 63% rise in six years...